What is it about?
that many studies until the last few years have assumed that the radical, prophetic impetus of the early Quaker movement in the British Isles lost its impetus after the Restoration, beginning a retreat inwards. My empirical study contradicts that assumption - Quaker writing sits alongside other genres of discourse: expository treatises, spiritual narrative and polemic dispute texts.
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Why is it important?
Using corpus-assisted methods in a wide range of texts, a more nuanced picture of rhetorical text types demonstrates both continuity of prophetic message as well as changes following on from the first generation of radical Quakers.
Perspectives
This is an episode of early Quaker history that is relatively neglected compared to the mid-century radicalism that is well-documented. Corpus methods are a not-so-new approach to such analysis.
Judith Roads
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This page is a summary of: Change and Continuity in Quaker Rhetoric after 1660, Religions, March 2021, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/rel12030168.
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